Language Contrasts in Cultural Perspectives

COURSE DESCRIPTION

The study course aims at gaining an understanding of a close relationship between language and culture, its written and oral forms and content in local and international contexts.

CONTENT

1. Language contacts
2. Cultural semiotics, linguistic artefacts as cultural signs
3. Text in a cultural context
4. Realias, translatability
5. Language usage in politics, humour; euphemisms, stereotypes
6. Intralingual differences: dialects and subdialects
7. Language of advertising in a cultural context
8. Language of myths, legends, folklore